Comments on: Kaka to Man City: The Potential Effects on Calcio

By: brayas

brayas — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:41:35 +0000

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By: Forzafrankie

Forzafrankie — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:55:00 +0000

I agree with Bobo. Please use this money on less Brazilians and bring home Rossi!

By: John Silver

John Silver — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:46:29 +0000

Ben – I agree there’s more than money involved in Kaka’s decision (mainly, it’s disillusionment with his current squad). But your last argument is moot. The extra money that Kaka would make in five years at Man City would far outweigh the capital he could earn in any post-football job.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:47:24 +0000

In addition, I want to mention host of other reasons why this move to Man City IS not much about money on kaka’s part (of course for the board of milan, money is a big part). First of all, if kaka chooses to join Man City, he is throwing away his icon status in milan. Sure, he can be a star in Man City but being a star in Man City vs Milan is very different. When he plies his trade in milan like the legendary maldini, he would have much fame and status by the end of his career. This would lead to better income after his football life. My analogy as a college student would be choosing between Harvard vs a college in 2nd tier. Sure the 2nd tier college can provide stipend, scholarship and all that but what will it provide after college?????? Kaka indeed needs to think about these things and he does. He is not stupid and again he is not poor. His strong religious belief also goes against fetching for materialistic things. Of course, he would never leave for less money but I am trying to say money is not the deciding factor for him.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:33:09 +0000

I dunno why people are saying he is choosing between money and glory. He is already earning 11million in milan and plus he probably has other income through adidas which would far outweigh any commerical income that he would gain from joining man city because AC Milan is a much renowed club than Man City. He can already buy the most expensive car, the biggest house and bunch of other things. He is not poor at Milan for goodness sakes. His decision is not based on money. The issue here is that he is forced out. There are number of factors pressuring him. The factors being tactical decisions of the coach, addition of other star players, debt of AC Milan and so on. Man City is just taking advantage of the situation and in my opinion they are doing a vey smart bussiness. First of all, they will gain international recognition and secondly addition of kaka would most likely instigate surge of signings of other stars. There will be domino effect albeit they don’t get relegated. So I think the 100million suggested is a very well devised plan on their part because the money includes many things other than the talent that kaka brings.

By: Bobo

Bobo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:35:05 +0000

Thank you, Tito. A massive injection of wealth into Serie A is never a bad thing… but something tells me that the Azzurri won’t see a dime of this. Milan will just buy more Brazilians and maybe branch into Argentina one of these days.

By: tito

tito — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:54:38 +0000

This is a magnificent transfer of wealth from the premiership to serie a.

100% good for calcio.

By: 9 Champs leagues

9 Champs leagues — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:49:06 +0000

guys, definately, kaka doesnt want to go but it seems the administrators have decided to take the offer from the english club…it must surely be hurting all Milan fans to see the lovable genius Kaka go but as Gianluca zambrotta admitted, even he would have gone if he had 15 million euro offer for a year…well, on the brighter side, milan deosnt need to worry, they have an upcoming icon in Pato, the boy is incredibly mature for his 19 years and is improving game by game, his stepovers yesterday when he left the likes of Gamberini for dead was awesome!!he will be the future icon for milan!!!
on the brighter side for Azzurri, the goal for Milan was created by an awesome trademark pass by Pirlo, a welcome sight to us all..he delivered that great through ball to pato!!
Forza Italia!!Forza Azzurri!!Forza Bari!!

By: John Silver

John Silver — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:32:26 +0000

There goes my take on the Kaka question.
http://www.footballitaliano.co.uk/article.aspx?id=108

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:19:12 +0000

No problem John Silver. The article was so good that I felt like I’d be doing a disservice by not posting it. Good stuff.

And Matt, I couldn’t be happier. Now he hopefully gets called up by Dunga and puts an end to all this. Or even better- he never gets his passport and Dunga never calls him up. Serves him right for thinking that he’s better than all this.